The brutal murder of 15-year-old Elda Jafta has left the people of Bredasdorp reeling. Now questions are being raised as to why governance systems are seemingly failing the most vulnerable in society.Bredasdorp is the Western Cape town in which Anene Booysen, 17, was raped, mutilated and murdered in February 2013.Elda's body was discovered on Sunday, stuffed under a bed in a shack in the Zwelitsha informal settlement. According to a preliminary autopsy, she had been beaten and stabbed to death.A 28-year-old man with whom she lived is expected in court today in connection with the death.Elda's mother, Eva Jafta, was inconsolable yesterday. She has not been allowed to see her body."It's him. He did it. He took my child and he killed her. I don't ever want to see his face again."Jafta said the man police arrested had stalked her daughter since 2013."She was just 13 years old and he took her to live with him."Jafta said she had laid a charge when the man had taken her daughter. He was arrested last year and charged with abduction. When he was released, he again took the young girl to live with him, said Jafta.She did not go to the police again and instead tried to get the man to release the teenager.The Times was unable to establish what happened to the abduction charges.Jafta, a domestic worker, said she had last seen her daughter on Monday night. "She said she wanted to leave him, that he beat her. I had to go to work the next day. I never saw her again."On Friday night he came around to my house and asked me if I knew where she was. I told him he was supposed to know where she was."On Sunday, the police informed her that her daughter was dead.Elda's father, Kenneth Abata, is in prison.At De Heide Primary School, teachers said they had last seen Elda in 2013, when she was in Grade 4."It is just a sad state of affairs. We informed her parents and social workers about Elda's absenteeism. Beyond that there is nothing we can do," one said."We didn't know she had been in a bad situation and we only heard the news this morning."Sihle Ngobese, spokesman for Western Cape social development MEC Albert Fritz, said: "Social workers are still doing an assessment and doing what is necessary to render the necessary counselling to the family."They had been unable to prevent Elda's murder because they had not known about her situation."If you see something, say something. It is impossible for us to act if we are not alerted.We have now sent a team thereto establish the facts," said Ngobese.Following the death of Anene Booysen, Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande established the Anene Booysen Skills Development Centre, saying: "We cannot bring Anene back, but in her memory we can at least make an attempt to ensure that what happened to her never ever happens to any other child."But since then two children have been murdered in Bredasdorp - 5-year-old Kayde Williams and Elda.Community Policing Forum head Helen Coetzee blamed an increase in tik houses and a dearth of visible policing.The Department of Justice and the Department of Community Safety declined to comment...